Public Health
Public health focuses on the systematic prevention of disease and prolonging of life by governments, NGO’s and other groups. Pulitzer Center stories tagged with “Public Health” feature reporting on communicable and non-communicable diseases, the development of medical systems and infrastructure to provide public access to health care services. Use the Pulitzer Center Lesson Builder to find and create lesson plans on public health.
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Pulitzer Center Update
This Week: Turkey's Coal Problem
Last week Turkey began burying the dead from the country’s worst-ever coal mining disaster. The toll...
May 19, 2014 -
Pulitzer Center Update
Robin Hammond and Varsha Ramakrishnan Win Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Awards
Photographer Robin Hammond honored for his focus on mental health in Africa, student fellow Varsha...
May 19, 2014 -
Pulitzer Center Update
Varsha Ramakrishnan Wins 2013 Student SPJ Mark of Excellence Award
Pulitzer Center-Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health student fellow honored for her...
May 12, 2014 -
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Climate Change and Mental Health
Climate change has already destroyed homes and crops. But what is it doing to mental health?
![](/sites/default/files/styles/510x315/public/05-15-14/pulitzer_globalpost_002.jpg.webp?h=28121b77&itok=S1CxIFVZ "In Lagos, Nigeria, "Morayo" (assumed name), right, 21, braids hair at the salon where she is part of an 18-month-long vocational program. At the end of the program, participants are given equipment of their own so that they might start their own business. Morayo had an abortion several years ago at a local clinic but has not told anyone other than her sister. Image by Allison Shelley. Nigeria, 2013.")
![](/sites/default/files/styles/510x315/public/11-05-13/picture_1.jpg.webp?h=c9f93661&itok=9Y7_G6X1 ""My husband walked out on me and my two children last year. He said I had not brought enough 'dahej' [dowry] with me." Image by Arjun Suri. India, 2013.")
